We're starting to experience some of the rain that the storms from the Southeast brought. It's not April without a few thunderstorms!!
Rainy days = no fencing work done
~A
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Birthdays and Fencing
Today my baby turns 3! Happy Birthday to Evie! The lucky girl got a special Birthday waffle with sprinkles for breakfast this morning.
After work today, the family headed up to Longview Hill Farm to install more fencing. Unfortunately, dark comes too soon and we weren't able to get done as much as we had liked.
~A
Yummy waffle with sprinkles!
That's my girl!
After work today, the family headed up to Longview Hill Farm to install more fencing. Unfortunately, dark comes too soon and we weren't able to get done as much as we had liked.
~A
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Great Day to Play!
What an amazing day!! It was almost 80 degrees out there and just beautifully sunny!
When I got home from work today, I let the girls stay up and we played outside. I decided to grab a couple of the chicks and let them enjoy the day. Red and Oreo are the only girls that actually like me and let me pick them up so they got the honor. And...they loved it!! It was incredible to watch them pecking around outside and eating up all the bugs. Josie and Evie were able to sit and play with them too.
Just a wonderful day!
~A
When I got home from work today, I let the girls stay up and we played outside. I decided to grab a couple of the chicks and let them enjoy the day. Red and Oreo are the only girls that actually like me and let me pick them up so they got the honor. And...they loved it!! It was incredible to watch them pecking around outside and eating up all the bugs. Josie and Evie were able to sit and play with them too.
Just a wonderful day!
~A
Installing The Goat Fencing
After work we went to Longview Hill Farm to start setting up our goat fencing. I was left in charge of raking the area, there’s nothing better then raking soggy leaves and sticks! We will need to build a compost soon, because those leaves would be awesome!!
Jesse and Tommy did the bulk of the work, because apparently I’m unable to swing a mallet, who knew? The area that we chose to start in has quite a few trees, which we used to attach the fencing to. They also used ratchet straps to tighten the fencing, which I thought was a pretty creative idea.
Tomorrow Jesse and I have an interview and blood test with our life insurance company, so we will get back to the fencing on Wednesday.
~A
Jesse and Tommy did the bulk of the work, because apparently I’m unable to swing a mallet, who knew? The area that we chose to start in has quite a few trees, which we used to attach the fencing to. They also used ratchet straps to tighten the fencing, which I thought was a pretty creative idea.
Tomorrow Jesse and I have an interview and blood test with our life insurance company, so we will get back to the fencing on Wednesday.
~A
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Waking Up Early & Building a Goat House
Cassi slept over last night because her and I are doing the 5 am pick-up run for Angel Food Ministries. The drive is about 40 minutes to Wallingford, not too bad with Dunkin’ Donuts and conversation. The helpers at the pick-up location have become so organized over the past year, they had a pallet with our food all ready for us when we got there and we just had to load it into the van, which they also helped with! We also picked up a couple of pallets from them to use for our compost bins.
All of Jesse’s hard work designing our goat house will be put to the test today. With his materials list in hand we headed off to Lowe’s. We had to bring everything to Jesse’s folks house because it was raining and they have a good size garage we were able to work in.
At the end of the day, after another trip to Lowe’s, and with the help of Jared, we were able to complete the framing for the floor, roof and all four walls. The plan is to bring the separate pieces to the farm to be assembled on-site by the first weekend in May.
~A
All of Jesse’s hard work designing our goat house will be put to the test today. With his materials list in hand we headed off to Lowe’s. We had to bring everything to Jesse’s folks house because it was raining and they have a good size garage we were able to work in.
At the end of the day, after another trip to Lowe’s, and with the help of Jared, we were able to complete the framing for the floor, roof and all four walls. The plan is to bring the separate pieces to the farm to be assembled on-site by the first weekend in May.
~A
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Visiting the Goats
After work today we spent some time over at CrossDrive Farm to visit the goats. The girls were much more interested in throwing rocks around than playing with all the babies. I hope they will focus more on the goats when we have them at our farm, because those girls are going to have chores to do!
Iris is still quite shy around us, but I’m sure in time she will get used to us being around. The babies on the other hand are quite the opposite. Lizette and Robin warned us that our two doeings are the resident trouble makers of the herd. They ALWAYS lead the goat races...oh boy!
After some playing around we helped Lizette and Robin herd the babies into the garage for the evening and spent a little more time with just the kids. Unfortunately, another little black and white kid slept in my arms while we were there and I’m quite tempted to take her home as well...we’ll see!
~A
Iris is still quite shy around us, but I’m sure in time she will get used to us being around. The babies on the other hand are quite the opposite. Lizette and Robin warned us that our two doeings are the resident trouble makers of the herd. They ALWAYS lead the goat races...oh boy!
After some playing around we helped Lizette and Robin herd the babies into the garage for the evening and spent a little more time with just the kids. Unfortunately, another little black and white kid slept in my arms while we were there and I’m quite tempted to take her home as well...we’ll see!
~A
Monday, April 11, 2011
Quick Chick Pics - Day 2
We chose different chicks today because we did not want to stress them out. The mommies for today’s session were both from the same high school as my sister and I, it was nice to catch up!
~A
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Quick Chick Pics - Day 1
Today is the first day of two where Longview Hill Farm’s chicks will be featured for Flint Print Photography’s Spring photo session. Two adorable youngsters had a chance to sit and pose with the chicks...it certainly made for some cute pictures!
~A
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Baby Chicks Arrive!
I got the call this morning! The call that I’ve been waiting for, letting me know that the first residents of Longview Hill Farm had arrived! My order of 28 chickens from McMurray Hatchery had arrived, one day early.
Cassi, Josie, Evie and I drove out to the Hartford post office to pick up our chickie babies. I could hear the chirping as the postal worker handed me my little box of fuzz. I brought the box over to Cassi’s side of the van and we opened it up to reveal the day old chicks.
All four of us instantly fell in love. It is amazing that we will be raising these chicks and providing for them, as they will provide for us.
~A
Cassi, Josie, Evie and I drove out to the Hartford post office to pick up our chickie babies. I could hear the chirping as the postal worker handed me my little box of fuzz. I brought the box over to Cassi’s side of the van and we opened it up to reveal the day old chicks.
~A
Goats & Seed Starting
Today we went to CrossDrive Farm in Vernon, CT to check out the new kids. I had already seen the goats online and knew which ones I hoped to add to our farm. The farm had 17 new kids this Spring...amazing!! We chose an adult doe, Iris and her two doelings that have yet to be named. I paid the deposit and we hope to have the goat house and fencing up by the first weekend in May so we can bring our new goats home then!
I think it hit me after the visit to the farm that we have a lot to do!
Back in March I won a basket of seeds from Comstock, Ferre & Co., along with some other cool stuff, in support of the Grow the Greenhouse auction for Topmost Herb Farm.
The basket, which was beautiful, had about 40 seed packets in it including sunflower, fennel, zinnia, squash, cress, onion, morning glory, cabbage, melon, radish, brussel sprouts, pumpkin, spinach, carrot and more.
Today I decided to start what I could with the materials I had from last year, a few seedling trays, plastic pots and one bag of seed starter. The seeds I started were Bonnie Best Tomato, Yellow Pear Tomato, Cayenne Pepper, Broccoli, Parsley and Chives. The girls were *very* helpful!
~A
I think it hit me after the visit to the farm that we have a lot to do!
Back in March I won a basket of seeds from Comstock, Ferre & Co., along with some other cool stuff, in support of the Grow the Greenhouse auction for Topmost Herb Farm.
Today I decided to start what I could with the materials I had from last year, a few seedling trays, plastic pots and one bag of seed starter. The seeds I started were Bonnie Best Tomato, Yellow Pear Tomato, Cayenne Pepper, Broccoli, Parsley and Chives. The girls were *very* helpful!
~A
Friday, April 1, 2011
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